Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2725, Jonathan Ellsworth, Mass.

SERVICE
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NUMBER _____
Olsworth, Jonathan Esther
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Jonathan Elsmerto deceased of _____ in the State of Maine who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Revolution time for 7 months Mass
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 23 Dollars 23 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. End of 20 June 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of March 1852 and sent to Deacons & Coombs
Arrears to the 4th of Present Semi-ann. allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. } A. P. M c Wrightman Clerk, Recorded by Book C. Vol. 1. Page 13.

923 McGuire Esther Ellsworth widow of Jonathan Ellsworth who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of March 1852 and sent to Jickens & Coombs Present.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 3 Vol. A
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1850 May 28/55
Esther Ellsworth, widow of Jonathan Ellsworth, Pres.
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152.325
Declaration of Esther Ellsworth Died.
H. L. Whitcomb Phillips Me.

State of Maine } ss. County of Franklin }
On this twelfth day of May A. D. 1855, before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within and the County & State aforesaid, personally appeared Esther Ellsworth aged eighty one years, a resident of Avon in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, who made oath in due form of law that she is the identical Esther Ellsworth to whom under provisions of the act of July 29 th 1848, a pension of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum has been allowed her for the services of her late husband Jonathan Ellsworth, now deceased, as a private soldier of the Revolutionary war.
She further states that her pension certificate under the aforesaid act of July 29, 1848, is numbered 9230, and bears date the nineteenth day of March, A. D. 1852 and made payable at the Portland agency. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty here to which she may be entitled under the act of the third of March, A. D. 1855. Never having received or knowing herself entitled, or made application under any previous act of Congress.
In evidence of her identity and proof and of the service by her said husband, she respectfully refers to the proofs heretofore aduced, now on file in the Pension Office

and upon which her annuity as aforesaid was granted, and to the accompanying affidavits. She further states that she is now the widow of said Jonathan Ellsworth, and for the proof of her said marriage, & death of her said husband, she also refers to said papers now on file in the Pension Office.
She appoints H. L. Whitecomb of Phillips, in the state of Maine as her attorney for the within specified purpose, to present said claim to the Department of the Interior and to receive a warrant or warrants therefrom if any shall be issued to her.
att. H. L. Whitecomb
Esther X Ellsworth mark
Sworn to and subscribed & acknowledged before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that I know the aforesaid Esther Ellsworth to be the identical person she alleges herself to be, a pensioner of the United States, and that I am not interested in this claim.
H. L. Whitecomb, Justice of the Peace.
We Levi Ellsworth, & Octavia Ellsworth, both residents of Avon in the County of Franklin & State of Maine, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Esther Ellsworth in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be.
Levi Ellsworth Octavia Ellsworth

State of Maine, } ss. County of Franklin }
On this twelfth day of May A. D. 1835, before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace, authorized by law to administer oaths within & for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Levi Ellsworth & Octavia Ellsworth both residents of Aron in the State of Maine, known to me as cred- ible persons, who made oath in due form of law that Esther Ellsworth who in their presence has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration, is to their personal knowledge, the identical person to whom under the provision of the act of July 29, 1848, a pension of $23.33 per annum has been granted for the services of her husband, now deceased, as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, that they have both
STATE OF MAINE
COUNTY OF FRANKLIN, SS.-
I, Isaac Dyer for the County of Franklin, hereby certify that
Clerk of all the Judicial Courts holden within and
H. S. Whitcomb
Esquire before whom the annexed proceedings were had, and who has thereto affixed his genuine signature was at the time of so doing and now is a Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County of Franklin, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts done as aforesaid.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court, at Farmington, this 24th day of May Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five
Isaac Dyer Clerk

State of Maine, } ss. County of Franklin }
On this twelfth day of May A. D. 1835, before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace, authorized by law to administer oaths within & for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Levi Ellsworth & Octavia Ellsworth both residents of Avon in the State of Maine, known to me as cred- ible persons, who made oath in due form of law that Esther Ellsworth who in their presence has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration, is to their personal knowledge, the identical person to whom under the provision of the act of July 29, 1848, a pension of $23.33 per annum has been granted for the services of her husband, now deceased, as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, that they have both known her from their youth up, and derive their knowledge from the follow- ing circumstances, to wit: that she (the said Esther) is a mother of one & a grandmother of the other of said witnesses, that she has lived in the town where said witnesses reside for forty years & upwards, now last past, & for many years last past, all have re- sided in the same family.
They further state that they are disinter- ested witnesses.
H. S. Whitecomb Justice of the Peace

152.325 Declaration of Esther Ellsworth Died
H. L. Whitecomb Phillips Me.

State of Maine, Franklin County ss On this 29 th day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty one Personally appeared before the Honorable Moses Sherburne judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Franklin aforesaid the same being a court of Record — Esther Ellsworth a resident of Avon, in the County of Franklin and State of Maine aged seventy eight years, who after being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 and July 29 th 1848.
And this Declarant states that she is the widow of Jonathan Ellsworth deceased, who was a Soldier of the Revolutionary Army and served therein as this declarant believes and has always heard her husband say Nine months, although she has documentary evidence of only seven months as will appear by the Certificate of the Secretary of State (Mass) which accompanies this declaration. She further states that her said husband was a native of Rowley, Massachusetts, that he lived there in the time of the Revolution and entered the army from that place. He afterwards removed to Falmouth now called Westbrook, which is this declarants native place and where she was married to her late husband

by Rev. Thomas Brown an ordained Minister of the Gospel, on the eighth day of March A.D. 1796 — And that her maiden name was Esther Storer — That she has not intermarried since her husband's death and is now a widow — She further declares that after the passage of the act of 1832 she has often heard her husband say that he was entitled to a pension under that act, but was deterred from making application through want of means & ill health and particularly from the remoteness of his residence from any person who was conversant with pension business — The Town of Avon then being a new and sparsely settled place.
She therefore claims a pension for herself under the act of July 29 th 1848 and also what is due her husband under the act of June 7 th 1832 from March 18 th 1831 to the time of his death which took place on the 20 th day of June 1836 — All of which will appear from the papers hereto annexed.
Witness
Esther her * Ellsworth Mark
Subscribed and sworn before me the day of the year first above stated
W. Sherburne Judge of probate.

I hereby certify that it has been satisfactorily  shown before me by legal evidence that the material statements made by the forenamed deponent are true — I also certify that that the said Esther Ellsworth is personally known to me as a person whose character for truth and veracity is without reproach.
M. Sherburne juror

I William Willis of Portland in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, Counsellor at Law, have in my possession a Manuscript book, on the first page of which is written the words "An Account of the Marriages performed by Thomas Brown Clerk." The book purports to be, and I believe is, the original book in which was entered from time to time the marriages performed by the Rev. Thomas Brown, the first settled minister of the Fourth Parish in Falmouth, in said County of Cumberland. The book was handed to me by the Rev. Allen Greeley, who stated to me that he had procured it from some of Mr. Brown's family. It was handed to me because I am a collector of historical facts & biographical anecdotes, used by me in preparing the history of Portland, which was formerly the First Parish in said Falmouth, and in another work, a new edition of "Smith's Journal" with notes &c.
Mr. Brown was settled in Falmouth August 21. 1765; On the 5 th page of the Manuscript is headed "Marriages at Falmouth", & the first entry is as follows, viz. "Sept 12 1765 Samuel Thomas and Betty Johnson, fees 6/" and so on regularly every year until 1797, the last entry is, "1797 May 17. Thomas White Lucy Morrow fees 1.25" D. C.
In this book under the year 1796, is the following entry, "March 8 Jonathan Elsworth Esther Storer, fees 6/7."
On the same page are eight other entries of marriage, before & after, in the same hand writing, & this & all the other

pages except the last are filled - The book contains twenty one leaves, all written on but the last two, with the record of marriages & nothing else.
Mr. Brown died at Palmworth in the ministry October 18. 1797 - The book which I have described bears all the marks of originality, and is undoubtedly the book in which Mr. Brown entered the marriages performed by him as they took place -
Wm Willis
State of Maine
Cumberland ss. On this twenty third day of May in the year eighteen hundred and fifty one, personally appeared William Willis, who is known to me to be the person who made & subscribed the foregoing deposition, and made oath that the facts set forth in his said deposition are true -
Before me
Jacob Herrick Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that William Willis Esq. above named is a Gentleman of great respectability and that his statements under oath are entitled to full credit and belief in and out of Court May 23 rd 1851 -
Jacob Herrick Just. Peace.

I hereby certify that the Commission under which I act as Justice of Peace for the County of Franklin is dated May the 29 th 1851 & that I was qualified on the 12 th day of August 1851 Joseph Dow
State of Maine Franklin County p J. G. M. Whitney Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for said State, in the County aforesaid certify; That Joseph Dow is a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, duly authorized to administer oaths and that his signatures to this and the attached instrument are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, for the County aforesaid, this second day of Dec r A.D. 1851. J. G. M. Whitney Clerk.

Know all men, that I Esther Ellsworth of Avon in the County of Franklin and State of Maine widow of Jonathan Ellsworth deceased - hereby constitute and appoint Jacob Herrick Esq my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to prosecute a claim for a pension which I hold against the United States, on account of the Revolutionary services of my late husband the said Jonathan Ellsworth, and for that purpose to demand of and to receive, from the Com- missioners of Pensions any and all pension certificates which I may be entitled to under any laws of the United States, hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my said attorney shall lawfully do in the premises in the same way I myself might have done if personally present. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Twentyfourth day of November 1837.
her Esther Ellsworth Mark.
Franklin 1 st November the 29 th 1837 Personally appeared Esther Ellsworth above named and acknowledged the above instrument by her signature to be her free act and deed before me
Joseph Dow Justice of Peace.

State of Maine, County of Franklin Town of Avon, Town Clerk's office November 7 th 1857 — In a book of Records of deaths happening in said Town of Avon, the follow- ing death is recorded Viz Jonathan Ellsworth died June the twentieth in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty six — The foregoing is a true Copy of the Record excepting the date, which is expressed in legible figures and characters thus "June 20 th A.D. 1836,"
Attest,
Rufus W. Libby
Town Clerk
I Rufus W. Libby on oath depose and say that I am Town Clerk of Avon aforesaid duly elected and sworn — That the Records of said Town are in my custody — That the foregoing Certificate was taken from said Records and is a true abstract from the same, with the exceptions above noted by me. Rufus W. Libby
State of Maine Franklin County ss. Nov. 7 th 1857 Sworn and subscribed before me, and I hereby certify that the above named affiant is the person he represents himself to be and a witness of respectability and veracity. Joseph Dow Just. Peace.

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Memorandum

Reog.  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2725
Esther Ellsworth Widow
Jonathan Ellsworth Br. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 213
[Arrangement of 1870.]

✓ No 88.308
Jonathan Ellsworth dec. Maine.
Act 7 June 1832 adm?
7 months per diem $23.83 per An to 20 June 1836 when he died.
Payable to Esther Ellsworth his widow.
✓ No 1068 Place the widow on the roll at the same rate under Act 29 July 1848
Dickens Hoombs Present.

Brief in the case of Jonathan Ellsworth dec d . County and State of Maine act 7 June 1832
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Record evidence of service. The widow is also entitled under 29 July 1824. Record evidence of her marriage in 1796.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
(Dicken Hoomb, Present,
F. F. Kirby Examining Clerk.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, December 6th A. D. 1857
I, Charles C. Harmon, CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Jacob Henrick
Is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for _____ the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that his COM- MISSION is dated July 21st _____ A. D. 1848 and will expire July 21st _____ A. D. 1855
and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his are _____ Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
C. C. Harmon
CLERK.

Dec 29 1857
Esther Ellsworth widow of Jonathan
Original claim under acts 7 th July 1832 & 29 th July 1848.
Triplett
W Cole
Dekins & Gault Present

At a Court of Probate held at Farmington, within and for the County of Franklin, on the first Tuesday of December, A. D. 1851.
It was satisfactorily proved by legal testimony in open Court, that Jonathan Ellsworth late of Arroy in said County, was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army; That he died on the twentieth day of June, A. D. 1836; That his widow Esther Ellsworth is still living in said Arroy; That she has not intermarried since her husband's death; but is now the widow of said Jonathan Ellsworth.
I also certify, that Hon. Moses Sherburne is sole Judge of said Court, and that the signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal official of said Court, this second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
J. W. Dinsmore.
Register of the Court of Probate, Franklin County.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
June 26 1850.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jonathan Ellsworth is borne on a pay roll of Capt. Joseph Blasey's Co. Col. Loogswell's Reg't in Essex Co. as a private, from Sept. 28. 1776. 2 mos. 2 days. On an abstract of Capt. John Kettell's Co. Maj. Heath's detachment of guards at Boston, as a private, from Aug. 21. 1779. 1 mo. 13 days. also an order on Treasurer, dated Rowley 1784 to pay his wages for this service to Capt. Thomas Keighill. — On a pay roll of Capt. Thomas Keighill's Co. Col. Nathl. Wade's Reg't. from Essex Co. as a private from July 8. 1780. 3 mos 14 days. — Capt. Keighill belonged to Rowley. — There appears to be no evidence of any other service by any person of the name. —

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written.
Wm. Smith Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of State Massachusetts Esther Ellsworth, widow of Jonathan Ellsworth, a soldier of the Revolutionary Army requests evidence of her said husband's service therein. Her husband aforesaid was a native of Rowley (Mass) and belonged to that place in the time of the Revolutionary war. She further states that he performed two tours of duty in the army — she thinks one of these was in 1775 and the other in 1780, amounting in both to nine months. She is not positive about the dates, but is very positive as to the length of the service. She also states that her maiden name was Esther Stone, that she was a native of Falmouth (Me) and was married to her said husband in that place by Rev. Thomas Brown in 1797 — She respectfully requests the Secretary of State to cause the rolls and Revolutionary documents in his office to be examined and a certificate granted of all the service of Jonathan Ellsworth of Rowley aforesaid. Esther her Ellsworth mark
State of Maine Cumberland ss June 13 th 1850. subscribed in my presence,
Jacob Herrick just. peace